Re: Tune at the beginning of "Territory"

On 14/03/2024 13.20, Scott Lurndal wrote:

"Michael F. Stemper" <michael.stemper@gmail.com> writes:

On 14/03/2024 00.31, Gary R. Schmidt wrote:

On 14/03/2024 07:09, Michael F. Stemper wrote:

"Territory"[1] is a short story or novellette by Poul Anderson.
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I have it in the collection _Trader to the Stars_. At the beginning,
there is written a short musical passage:

Dare I suggest that you take a photograph of the page and post it, somewhere?

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I think that this will show it:
<https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eEssDYrt73vtdgYJ0q_qHud0i8e-qzFq/view?usp=sharing>
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 There's no time signature, so it would appear to be a single
measure in, if I remember back that far,  5/4.

Well, chant is also notated without time signatures or even bars. I
don't think that lack of a time signature is really intended to imply
one (except, maybe, common time).

C, F  C/Csharp/G/A B, Bflat
 I played it on a piano and it did not sound familiar.

Well, thanks for trying.
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